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This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”[a]
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For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:
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“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.”[b]
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Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.